Section 10
Search
10. Search:
(1) If the investigating Police personnel, in relation to any crime, find reasonable ground to suspect a person or place to have possessed any person or
physical evidence in relation to the crime, s/he may search the person or place in the prescribed manner.
Provided that, the act of search of a woman shall be conducted only by a woman police or any other woman.
(2) If the person or place to be searched falls under the jurisdiction of any other Police Office, the investigating Police personnel may make a written request
for the search of such person or place to such Police Office, and if such request is made, the Police personnel of at least Assistant Sub-Inspector level of the Police
Office receiving such request shall make search of such person or place and send to the requesting Police personnel the muchulka (recognizance/deed) prepared
pursuant to Sub-Section (3).
Provided that the Police personnel conducting investigation deems that while making such a written request to another Police Office may cause any evidence disappear or destroy, s/he him/herself may go and search the person or place pursuant to this Section and inform about to the concerned Police Office.
(3) The personnel conducting such search shall prepare two copies of muchulka (recognizance/deed) regarding the description of the objects found
relating to the crime in the search, the place where such objects were found and their condition as and when found; give a copy of it to the concerned person and keep a copy in the case file. If the personnel conducting search wants to take some object with him/her, s/he shall take the object only by giving a receipt of it to the
concerned person.